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by gamble 16y ago
It's not an unreasonable opinion. Google is dependent on a single product, there's almost no barrier for users or advertisers to switch, and most of Google's proprietary technology in software and datacenter design is completely opaque to i
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by gamble 16y ago
The province I live in, Alberta, had a similar problem getting rural communities online. There are a few dozen independent wireless ISPs that cover most of the smaller towns, but the sticking point was getting a decent backbone connection o
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by gamble 16y ago
The Zune was never well-known enough for its name to be tarnished. The marketing was so low-key and sporadic that it hardly seemed to penetrate much beyond Redmond. Not to mention that it was basically non-existent outside of the US.
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by gamble 16y ago
It's hard to say whether Apple could even negotiate a deal to offer song sharing. The media companies are so frightened of extending iTunes near-monopoly to other areas that I tend to assume that they'd rather not cut any deals with Apple t
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by gamble 16y ago
They'd be crazy not to focus on Asia. (And the middle east) Europe is locked up by Airbus, and the Americas are moving in the other direction toward small regional jets.
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by gamble 16y ago
That's fair. They did work pretty hard to get rid of it and regain control of their platform, though. I hope Nokia will make the same effort.
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by gamble 16y ago
Except Apple didn't put NT on its computers.
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by gamble 16y ago
One commonality between many successful dropouts like Zuckerberg and Gates is that they dropped out to do something specific, not because they were too lazy or undisciplined to finish. Had the right opportunity not come along, I suspect man
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by gamble 16y ago
America was a genuinely high-growth 'emerging economy' until ~1950, and then by sheer coincidence experienced another few decades of economic dominance thanks to the destruction of WW2 and the rise of communism in eastern Europe and Asia. T
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by gamble 16y ago
"A ‘Top of All Stories’ story on Digg would have previously brought in 80-100k uniques whereas of late we’re seeing between 5-10k on average." Ouch.
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by gamble 16y ago
I'm not sure e-ink is an asset in a PDF reader. I use my iPad for a lot of technical papers and books. It's much faster than an e-ink display would be, and the page turning lag is still annoying. E-ink would be insufferable.
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by gamble 16y ago
This is the point where someone argues that Nokia is doing just fine, since they still have 110% market share in Tanzania...
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Apple Steps Up Lobbying Effort(politico.com)
2 points by gamble 16y ago|1 comments
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by gamble 16y ago
The UBB decision is separate, but the major providers have coincidentally decided to start enforcing the caps simultaneously. The two are linked since they can now charge whatever they want for bandwidth without worrying about competition.
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by gamble 16y ago
I'd love to see whether the average person realizes that Droid and Android aren't the same thing. It always seemed like a huge concession for Google to let Verizon essentially own the public face of Android, but I guess they were feeling th
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by gamble 16y ago
They know what they're doing. The problem is that they're biased. It's fundamentally the same issue that plagues financial regulation. The people who are the most qualified to understand the technological and regulatory issues are the most
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by gamble 16y ago
The second half of this article reads like it was written by Bell or Rogers. The problem with UBB is not caps, per se, but the fact that the caps were absurdly small and overage fees grossly exceeded the cost of bandwidth. Not to mention th
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by gamble 16y ago
Perhaps I'm being cynical, but I suspect that part of the reason Facebook's recent investors have accepted such a ridiculous valuation is that they expect the everday ubiquity of Facebook to drive a flood of dumb money into Facebook after t
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by gamble 16y ago
Edmonton. They started reporting bandwidth usage on last month's bill.
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Samsung Admits Galaxy Tab Sales Are 'Quite Small'(electronista.com)
37 points by gamble 16y ago|32 comments
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by gamble 16y ago
Android tablet sales are nowhere near what has been claimed. The 22% figure is derived from Galaxy Tab sales to retail. Even Samsung is admitting now that far fewer have been sold through to consumers: http://www.electronista.com/articles/
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by gamble 16y ago
I have. They are enforcing it now.
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by gamble 16y ago
It's still pretty thin compared to the US, particularly for television. There haven't been any dramatic changes since the launch.
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Australia Loses Its Grip On The Foreign-Student Market(chronicle.com)
4 points by gamble 16y ago|1 comments
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In Japan, Young Face Generational Roadblocks(nytimes.com)
99 points by gamble 16y ago|33 comments
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by gamble 16y ago
And nearly twice their per-unit Mac sales for the quarter. Ten years of work on OSX barely shifts the needle; less than a year of iPad sales breaks the gauge. It's pretty clear which OS is more important to Apple now.
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by gamble 16y ago
The average for English is over ten years.
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by gamble 16y ago
It ranks highly because the content farms target long-tail searches where it's easy for marginal content to dominate the results. They are in a sense arbitrageurs. They use software to located search terms where the revenue from ads outweig
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by gamble 16y ago
DDG is built on Yahoo BOSS, (Build Your Own Search Service) Yahoo's white-label search engine API. DDG adds spam filtering and some custom indexing on top, but the bulk of their data comes from Yahoo's index. AFAIK BOSS is still Yahoo techn
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by gamble 16y ago
I'm not sure there's any moral distinction between paying a human being to rewrite Wikipedia or using a scraper to copy it. The key difference is that the later is a copyright violation, which a company like Demand Media can't do so long as

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